Continents of Exile (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Ved Mehta
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Children, Family or family life, Blindness or blind persons, Alienation, Immigration or emigration, India or East Indian people, Disabilities or physically challenged persons
The Work
In Continents of Exile, Ved Mehta has set himself the task of remembering and interpreting his life. In the seven volumes published before 1994, he examined his own development up to his graduation from the University of Oxford. Mehta’s quest for self-understanding is also an introduction to the several different cultures through which Mehta has passed. From childhood Mehta has been an outsider seeking to understand worlds of which he is not fully a part. The loss of his eyesight at age three made him an exile in the world of the sighted, and his almost heroic...
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